Buttermere nr. Hungerford
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B01: design element - motifs - zigzag
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Colin Smith
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B02: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13745BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: "church of ST. JAMES, so called in 1763," [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Church Address: Buttermere, Wiltshire, SN8 3RQ
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Hungerford (Berks.)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone -- formerly Wessex
Additional Comments: altered font: re-tooled basin? replaced stem and lower base?
Font Notes:
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Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, of tub-shape, with a band of flat zigzag." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "Buttermere church was standing in 1268. [...] The old church [...] was built of flint and had an undivided chancel and nave, a north porch, and a western bell turret of timber. [...] The windows in the north wall were replaced in the 14th century, and the porch was built in the 18th. [it] was wholly rebuilt in 1855-6"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry for this church. The present font consists of a round tapering basin decorated with a band of zigzag and a roll moulding below, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and round moulded -water-catching- lowere base; on a polygonal plinth [NB: the basin may be the only original part, and even the basin may have been re-tooled]. The basin is lead-lined. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern; Victorian?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 603644 5689572
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 468
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 154